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Published February 07. 2021 10:18AM  Carol Sommer Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV spent from 1937 to 1941 in France in the U.S. diplomatic corps, issuing visas. Many of his clients were refugees seeking safety in America from Nazi persecution. Some of them were famous, some weren’t, but they all had one thing in common: they were fleeing death. His work, much of it in defiance of government orders, was so stressful that, although he was a young man, the experience turned his hair completely whi...